soligen

I just got a new Radean 4870 card, and have the following problem:

When runnin in windowed mode, if my mouse hovers over any other apaplication, or an icon on the task bar, then myh frame rate drops to about 3. The frame rate returns shortly after moving the mouse back to EQ2. This only happens when any form an anti-aliasing is turned on. I'm running XP, adn the latest driver.

Obviously I can turn off AA, but this answer sucks - I got a nice card and nice system - I want it to look good!

SO the questions: IS this typicall of all Radeon cards? Is ATI likely to fix this kind of thing? Anyone know how to report this to ATI?

ANyone know a way to resolve this without loosing AA?

palantiri

im running a 4870 and vista 64bit, can have other apps open over game and mouse over taskbar etc without problems so maybe its an issue with xp? if not you can always try installing another driver, catalyst 8.7 beta or 8.6 hotfix, depending on what your using now

and im running 4x edge-detect aa

soligen

Thats interesting. An XP problem not in Vista. I am running the 8.7 Beta. I had the hotfix driver and noticed an issue, but hadn't figured out what caused the frame rate drop until after the change to beta. The hotfix also crashed me several times - at least the beta is stable